Crossroads GPS — the advocacy group founded by Karl Rove — announced the start of a major television spending campaign over the next month. The ads will air in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia and address the nation’s debt and the slow economic recovery.

A Super PAC’s scheme to depict Barack Obama as a “black, metrosexual Abe Lincoln” in a GOP ad campaign was discovered by the New York Times today. Here’s a Photoshop rendering of how literally cool Metro Abe would look.

“He promised us the same things he’s promising the United States. And he’ll give you the same thing he gave us. Nothing. He’ll take it all.” Priorities USA, Obama’s Super PAC, doubles down on the Romney Bain attack. Ad is first in multi-million dollar series to run in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Pro-Romney spending makes up 63 percent of all television dollars. A source sends along a tally of all television spending so far this election cycle and Romney’s campaign wins the day — even before his SuperPacs are tallied.

He told wealthy supporters not to back big money outside groups in 2008, but Obama is now signaling to his donors to back the independent expenditure groups. With Republican groups raking in millions, Obama wants in on some of the action made possible in part by a Supreme Court decision he’s deplored.